I thought you had lost all your gift cards, justcause. That was why you couldn't send me the one I bought, anyway. And you had lost your wallet, that's why you couldn't receive the payment I had put in escrow for you. As you suddenly realized once you ran out of other excuses not to deliver.
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Do you have any feedback/rating to rely on?
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The problem with communism is there's no incentive to work.
Communism gives communism a bad name.
The problem with posting philosophy on the Internet is that... I DON'T NEED AN INCENTIVE TO WORK. I have plenty of things I'll pay to be allowed to do. Ok then, it's settled. I'll start a communistic pool with a pentium 3. You join with all your video cards. We split 50/50. Sound good?  Make it dynamic. You handle leaflets, I'll create the software. Only all I got is a shitty laptop. But cool for starters. Lol, let's do it. I'll make it as happy-sounding as possible. "Join the communist bitpool TODAY!" "Get YOUR FAIR SHARE of everything that is mined!" "Help your neighbor when he's down, and he'll help you when you're down!" "Donate a gigahash or three, and help people who don't have access to the kind of hardware you do!" Etc, etc. |
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The problem with communism is there's no incentive to work.
Communism gives communism a bad name.
The problem with posting philosophy on the Internet is that... I DON'T NEED AN INCENTIVE TO WORK. I have plenty of things I'll pay to be allowed to do. Ok then, it's settled. I'll start a communistic pool with a pentium 3. You join with all your video cards. We split 50/50. Sound good? |
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This is the address I get from looking up the long/latitude.
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Address:Huanhu Expy, Suyu, Suqian, Jiangsu, China
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Longitude:118.2711234°
That should be 118 degrees west, not east (the metadata says W, often entered as a negative number)...which would put them in the USA not in China My bad.  In that case, the closest address is... Address:1536 Cambria St, Los Angeles, CA 90017, USA Latitude:34.052619° Longitude:-118.271253° Accuracy:8: Address level. Status:200: Successful geocode. I'm not going to encourage anyone do anything, because I don't want to get in trouble. I'm just throwing this out there. |
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Sorry to hear that trentzb, I was wondering what the details were when you mentioned that to me. He just responded that he is not the same person...although quite a futile attempt.
Thats pretty bad leaving in the geotagging, and naming the second one scam2. Not only do we know its a scam for sure, we know where the guy lives (or at least took both photos) This is the address I get from looking up the long/latitude. Selected Location (output)* Address:Huanhu Expy, Suyu, Suqian, Jiangsu, China Latitude:34.0527014° Longitude:118.2711234° Accuracy:6: Street level. Status:200: Successful geocode. Source: http://www.findlatitudeandlongitude.com/find-address-from-latitude-and-longitude.phpWho knows though, he could have even stole the images from the web from someone else taking pictures. Is there any kind of "matching" picture search, where the search will attempt to find out if the same image exists anywhere else on the web? That'd be a pretty slick website, actually.... |
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Price drop to 32.5BTC, due to the recent value increase in BTC!
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I'm confident that Bitbills are presently secure against both tampering and counterfeiting. We will continue to add more security features to future versions.
I see. I though the hologram that hides the private key was just a sticker. @SunAvatar I know total security is impossible, I meant secure enough to trade with it. I should have read the whole web first. Indeed. Reading the whole web is definitely the best way to stay on top of... the whole web. Call me when you're done. |
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It kills incentive to buy the cards as an easy way to hold bitcoins for the future. I picture it like having a stock certificate. You know you have it, you have proof you have it, there's no risk of digital loss, and you can open it up and redeem it at any time in the future.
Can't we just do that ourselves? Just print out the private key, lock it up, and delete it on your PC. Expiring notes will help new notes with better security get into circulation. A redeem or exchange by date on the bill itself will fairly keep the holder informed. Good point. I still don't think expiration dates are necessary or wanted. I would rather have less currency in circulation, than have my bitcoins randomly expire because I forgot to redeem them by a certain date. I HATE expiration dates on things. If I get a gift card, I want it to be good for as long as I live. Same with gift certificates. Expiration dates are frustrating, obnoxious, and I would never purposefully buy something with them. I'm too forgetful of a person to buy money that expires. |
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This seems to assume that most of the network's power will come from dedicated miners who are operating just above profitability. I don't see any reason to believe that this will be the case.
So the network's power will come from miners operating at a loss and this whole transaction fee thing - intended to incentivise block generation with profits - is unnecessary? Oh come on, you don't believe in everyone volunteering their time and resources for the common good? Isn't that what socialism is so good at?  |
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Well here's a crazy idea that even I wouldn't like... bitbills.com could somehow backup the wallets they put onto the cards.
Put an expiration date on the card, say 10 years into the future.
If the card hasn't been imported by that date, bitbills.com can spend those coins.
What's wrong with that? It kills incentive to buy the cards as an easy way to hold bitcoins for the future. I picture it like having a stock certificate. You know you have it, you have proof you have it, there's no risk of digital loss, and you can open it up and redeem it at any time in the future. |
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You people forget that the public key is visible. Therefore you cannot invalidate the card because you can look up the bitcoin address on blockexplorer.com to see if it has the funds in that the card claims.
Once someone decides to crack open the card, they'll be the first to spend them.
BitBills should include some kind of serial code / id number which can be used to verify it on their website. That way you can verify that the card actually came from them. Maybe they could sell POS scanners that verify the tokens when swiped.
Problem is, a counterfeit operation could just add the same serial number to a card with the same public key. So they print everything on the exterior the same, but the private key inside is invalid. They could keep the real card and maintain the balance in the account so anyone checking the balance could see that it has a balance, but they can't actually access the balance because the private key inside of the card is fake. Very cool, you can even store more of your bitcoins in the bitbill address.
But I think paying directly with them isn't very secure.
Here's an attack:
1) I purchase a bitbill.
2) I put out the stick and scan the private key.
3) I put back the stick
4) I pay with the billbit. When the merchant verifies the bitbill, your server says. "Yes, the 20 btc are still there".
5) I use the private key to extract the bitcoins
Maybe the sticks are so special that make 3 impossible, but I don't think so.
Anyway, It will work great for gift cards and physical storing.
A bitcoin client that imports private keys from IQ-codes would be useful. The private key can only be accessed by destroying the card. It is literally hidden between layers of plastic. A hologram must be destroyed, and the card has to be cut apart in order to access it. At least, that's how I understand it. |
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I don't have a gift code, but I WILL say check out my Minecraft community when you're up and running and wanting to check out some multiplayer action. www.minecraftcc.com |
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I live in the U.S. and it's hard to convince people that the dollar is going to collapse, I've been warning everyone I know to buy gold and silver (and now bitcoin) for years and only 1 person has listened to me about gold/silver and 1 about bitcoin. Most people I know here, even people who are intelligent in other areas, have a huge normalcy bias and don't consider transacting in anything besides usd. It's good to hear that people in other parts of the world are more open.
I'm not too worried about it because I have large student loans, and an even larger mortgage. Basically, I have nothing to lose, and everything to gain if the dollar goes into hyper-inflation mode. |
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Gray-scaled the website for the most part, for you color-despising folk. Let me know what you think of the new scheme.
Also, the "browse bitcointers" and Registered Members links work now... both leading to the same page. I plan to add sort-by's on that page.
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Sure, I could do paypal as well. Uhmmm, real feedback... Well, I sold a piano album to one chap on these forums, I'll see if he wants to give feedback for me. I am (well, was, since I declared quitting the community earlier this evening) a member on Overclock.net with a trader rating of 9 ( http://www.overclock.net/intel-motherboards/254734-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3l-thread.html, look under my avatar). My eBay profile is under a different username, so that's not very helpful. I suppose I could message you from it to prove that it is me though. I have almost 300 positive feedbacks, and I think 1 negative from a person who bought an ebook without understanding it was an ebook. I do run a decent-sized Minecraft community ( http://www.minecraftcc.com/). You could post in the shoutbox and ask how much the folks there trust me. Let's see... I can't really think of any other real feedback sources that have my SgtSpike username attached to it. I am a member of quite a few forums under the name though, and would hate to tarnish it with... anything bad. Unfortunately, I've only been aware of bitcoins for a short time (about two weeks now), so I haven't had much chance to prove myself as a trustworthy member of the community yet. |
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Thanks Longmarch, fixed. I borked the registration when I added the private email option. |
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